LONG RANGE PLANNING RESULTS
November, 2007
Goal #1 - Delivery System Innovation
Action Plan:
1. Develop website
Include e-forums to share innovative ideas for practice, practice pearls, legislative information, magazine.
Track usage of webpage to help design CME and magazine articles and other interests.
2. Educate members about medical home.
Recommend to our members that they testify to legislative and regulative boards about importance of medical home.
Support the development of demonstration projects.
3. Promote population based medicine.
“We believe that the current fee for service system obstructs optimal population medicine and alternatives need to be designed and encouraged.” During 2008 the OAFP will provide input to state and national legislators and have discussions with purchasers about population based medicine.
4. Approach OHSU about student training.
Ask OHSU to use the PCM course to train students to be to embrace innovation, be team members with nurses, mental health professionals, physical therapy, etc, and maintain a broad scope of practice.
5. Explore partnerships to transform the health care system
With other primary care organizations.
Purchasers of health care, such as (PEBB) and Oregon Educational Board and other employers,
Health systems and hospitals to explore partnerships to transform the health care system.
Goal #2 - Workforce Issues
Action Plan:
1. Work to increase the number of students entering family medicine
Support efforts that tie state funding of OHSU to the number of primary care graduates.
Ask organizations that contract with OHSU for health care to discuss primary care shortage.
Facilitate OAFP members to mentor high school and college students.
Include a faculty development workshop in our Scientific Assembly.
Help OHSU identify which practice sites would be good for students to visit.
2. Continue to develop opportunities for Residents on OAFP board and committees.
3. Work with Residency Directors to facilitate Residents having time to participate.
4. Offer Residents opportunity to develop poster presentations
5. The OAFP will act as recruitment resource.
Invite regional residency programs to come to Scientific Assembly.
Encourage groups looking for physicians to exhibit.
Use the OAFP website to publicize practice opportunities.
Include links on our website to the residency directors websites.
6. Establish the OAFP as a clearing house for retired physicians to act as locums.
7. Publicize the availability of refresher training at OHSU.
8. Survey the membership to find out how many physicians would like to use locums.
9. Help develop Family Medicine support groups to meet either face to face or e-mail or chat room.
10. Continue support for legislative programs to help rural physicians
11. Ask OAFP members in rural practices to work with the state and OHSU to reassess and reinvigorate the AHEC program.
12. Identify and publicize loan repayment grant opportunities.
13. Work with Lisa Dodson to advocate for an up-to-date workforce analysis.
Goal #3 - Internal OAFP
Action Plan:
1. Consider restructuring the OAFP board to promote efficiency and responsiveness.
Develop task force to re-evaluate the leadership structure of the OAFP. Recommend considering the following: regional representation, education/research, legislation, universal access, workforce, leadership development
2. Recommend board designate “research” as a new commission or that it be integrated into the Education Commission
3. Increase participation in research by office based practices by 10% .
4. Disseminate Evidence Based research data and translate this into CME
5. Conduct a needs assessment to address:
Why haven’t you attended an OAFP CME program?
What would motivate you to attend?
What are your CME needs?
What are your preferred modes of CME delivery?
6. CME offered by OAFP will be presented or coordinated by FPs.
7. The OAFP will ask members what they would like to learn from CME faculty.
8. Develop a leadership network to include a list of local family medicine leaders.
Identify these leaders’ areas of expertise and develop a program to facilitate
communication and mentor relationships
Goal #4 - External Affairs
Action Plan:
1. Identify local champions for universal access and legislative outreach in 90% of hospital catchment areas .
2. Get 50% of OAFP members to contact their legislators.
3. Gather information about 25 groups that are potential allies for universal access.
4. Create a presentation on universal access that local champions will deliver to at least one community or business organization in each catchment area.
5. Include education at our CME meetings to help make local champions effective.
6. Coordinate a Legislative Day in Salem.